Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- adj. Weighty or significant; full of meaning: a conversation occasionally punctuated by pregnant pauses.
- adj. Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment: "It was a politically pregnant time in Poland” ( New York).
- adj. Filled or fraught; replete: "This was, from the Party's point of view, both deplorable in itself and pregnant with danger for the future” ( Robert Conquest).
- adj. Having a profusion of ideas; creative or inventive.
- adj. Producing results; fruitful: a pregnant decision.
- adj. Archaic Convincing; cogent. Used of an argument or a proof.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Being with young; big with child; gravid: as, a pregnant woman.
- Impregnated; filled; big: generally followed by with.
- Heavily laden; freighted.
- Full of meaning; giving food for thought; suggestive; significant; destined to develop important thought.
- Full of promise; of unusual capacity, ability, or wit; shrewd; witty; ingenious; expert.
- Characterized by readiness of wit; keen; apt; clever.
- Ready; disposed; prompt; susceptible.
- Convincing; easily seen; clear; evident; probable in the highest degree.
- In logic, requiring an explanation; exponible.
- n. One who is pregnant, or with child.
Wiktionary
- adj. Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- adj. Having numerous possibilities or implications.
- adj. Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
- adj. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty.
- adj. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc..
- n. A pregnant woman.
- adj. Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. filled with or attended with
- adj. carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
- adj. rich in significance or implication
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praegnāns, praegnant-, variant of praegnās; see genə- in Indo-European roots.Middle English, probably from Old French preignant, present participle of prembre, to press, from Latin premere; see per-4 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“III. ii.66 (243,9) the pregnant hinges of the knee] I believe the sense of _pregnant_ in this place is, _quick, ready, prompt_.”
“This was the "Powhatan" of the Indians; and no true lover of Virginia can cease to deplore the change which robbed this graceful stream of a title pregnant with all the associations of Indian valor and of the departed glory of their empire, and bestowed a name that can only recall a royal pedant and a timid despot!”
“So a woman who gets pregnant from a sexual assault can have the name of her rapist attached to the child?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Discrimination in Child Naming Law
“No one has ever published any photos of Sarah Palin pregnant with Trigg.”
Think Progress » Hawaii considers legislation to ignore birthers.
“My wife was informed that craving clay is somewhat common in pregnant ladies.”
“Urso: My wife was informed that craving clay is somewhat common in pregnant ladies.”
“Every woman who becomes pregnant is a mother – for a moment at least – whether she holds her child or not.”
“But if one is telling the woman she has to remain pregnant, and thus still telling a woman what to do with her body.”
“Yun Er, we have Do not contend anything, she was pregnant, is a male upon a responsibility. responsibility? we as well as your son, not which my responsibility?”
“But, I tell ya, folks ... being pregnant is sooo much easier than adopting!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pregnant’.
kewpid How soon until the kid gets their own account? >.< Sep 10, 2009
chained_bear Well, okay, but it's still funny. Sep 10, 2009
reesetee Honestly, I'd like to laugh at that, but I've seen so many...er, personal...announcements on Facebook that it almost doesn't faze me. Sep 9, 2009
chained_bear "On Facebook." Sep 9, 2009